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Jamshedpur, May 21 (IANS) In a stellar show of indomitable spirit, Arunima Sinha became the first woman in the world to conquer Mt. Everest with prosthetic legs, when she successfully climbed the world's highest peak Tuesday. The 26-year-old scaled the peak at 10.55 a.m. carrying the tri-colour. The achievement coincides with the 60th anniversary of the first conquest of the Mt Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay May 29, 1953. Groomed by the first Indian woman to scale Mt. Everest ...